Point guards are known for their passing skills, not shot selection. Case in point, James Madison guard Ryan Knight.
Harrisonburg, Va., police charged Knight with felony snowball throwing charges, stemming from allegations of him pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday’s blizzard.
No, that isn’t a link to “The Onion.” Yes, it’s an actual charge.
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This expansion idea’s catching. First it was the Big Ten, then the Big Dance and now the Pac-10.
Well, maybe.
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said Tuesday that the league would have “serious analysis and serious evaluations” sometime in the next 6 to 12 months about expanding the conference. The league has TV deals that expire after the 2011-12 academic year, which makes this time a prime window to consider adding a school for the first time in more than 30 years.
Which begs the question: Who would the Pac-10 add?
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Whether you think the possible NCAA tournament expansion is good or bad, the reason behind it is clear: money.
To that point, USA Today’s Michael Hiestand castigated the NCAA for its desire to wring more money out of its biggest cash cow, likening it to “Looking under its couch cushions for every coin it can find.”
Hey, if I can find an extra billion dollars in my couch, I’d sift through the cushions, too. If TV networks want to pay exorbitant amounts of money to tweak the format, it behooves the NCAA to listen.
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How to measure Kansas’ dominance on Monday night? Let me count the ways.
Or rather, let me present the links of others who have counted the ways.
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For all the talk about Kansas’ ugly 80-68 win at Texas Monday night – neither team shot better than 40 percent, the ‘Horns went scoreless in an 11-minute span, and KU stars Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins combined to hit just 5 of 23 shots – there was one part that stood out above all else.
No, not the technical foul on Aldrich for swinging an elbow at Texas’ Damion James.
I’m talking about the free throw. The one that Brady Morningstar will never live down.
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Most of the talk surrounding the possible NCAA tournament expansion has come from hoops writers and blogs. Any NCAA comment usually contains a phrase along the lines of “we’re exploring all options, but nothing’s even close to final.”
So when a conference commissioner makes public comments on the expansion, it makes sense to listen.
The Big Ten’s Jim Delaney did a short Q&A with Mike DeCourcy, all of which centered around how a larger tournament would affect the game. Take five minutes and read the whole thing. It’s a calm, measured response to several possibilities, which is refreshing.
But it was interesting to see how it circled the Web on Monday – namely, that Delaney’s against expansion.
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The Duke-North Carolina game is flogged on a national level more than just about any rivalry. If Red Sox-Yankees or Colts-Patriots get more attention, it’s because of their sports or the number of times they play.
In terms of college hoops, it’s probably the only rivalry with consistent national interest every season. Part of that’s because ESPN’s builds its “rivalry week” TV schedule around it – usually leaving out games like Kentucky-Louisville, Indiana-Purdue and Kansas-Missouri – and because the two teams are usually on the shortlist of title contenders.
But does that make the Devils-Heels the best? After all, a person’s favorite rivalry depend on where you live.
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For once, March Madness may not be all about the big boys.
The major conference schools dominate our latest NCAA tournament projections – 31 of the 65 teams are from the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC – but there are plenty of at-large bids coming to everyone else.
Take the Atlantic 10. Only the Big East and Big 12 have more teams in our latest field of 65 than the A-10. Those six? Charlotte, Dayton, Rhode Island, Richmond, Temple and Xavier, all of which are in the 6-10 seed range.
And, given that the Mountain West, Conference USA and West Coast are all multiple-bids leagues, it’s not a bad spring to be a mid-major.
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North Carolina’s freefall – seven losses in its last nine games – has caused much consternation among the Tar Heel faithful and resulted in numerous stories about just why the defending champs are struggling.
The most recent being a Roy Williams interview with Yahoo! Sports’ Jason King, replete with some of the best quotes Ol’ Roy has to offer. To say this season’s been hard on him would be an understatement.
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Ernie Kent’s used to the coaching hot seat. But this spring may actually be the year Kent doesn’t return to the Oregon sideline.
That’s what happens when you lose the Civil War. By 20.
The Ducks’s 62-42 loss to Oregon State on Saturday was the worst to their in-state rival in 28 years and left the Beavers fans chanting “Goodbye Er-nie!.” Ouch.
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